Shots Fired In Door Of Pine Chapel Apartment

June 13, 1990

HAMPTON — Two armed men walked up to an occupied Pine Chapel apartment Monday and one of them fired as many as six shots into the back door, police said. No one was hurt in the incident.

Police believe the shooting was the result of an ongoing dispute between a man inside the apartment and one of the assailants over a woman who was visiting the apartment in the 300 block of Freeman Drive, said Detective Lt. Tom Townsend.

He said police were called to the scene at 2:11 p.m. Monday.

Townsend said four men, including the two men carrying handguns, approached the apartment and one of them reached through a window and pointed his gun into the apartment.

The man visiting the apartment grabbed the gunman's wrist and unsuccessfully tried to wrest the pistol from him, Townsend said.

As they were struggling, the second gunman fired about six shots from a semiautomatic pistol into the back door, Townsend said.

After the last shot, the fourmen fled. They were seen getting into a two-door maroon Toyota with a 30-day license plate, he added.